GRE Word List
PANACEA
a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| pilfer | steal |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| alimentary | of or relating to nourishment or nutrition |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| prosperous | auspicious |